Somalia...Hope for an Islamic democracy? Moderate Islamic rule?

I think Somalia will be an interesting place to watch with newly elected president and moderate Islamist leader Sharif Ahmad in office.

Here is a Wash Post article about it. I am looking for others.

He might be one of the 'good' Islamists, and is already starting to confront - through violence and diplomacy and reconciliation - the more extremist Shabaab movement.

We'll see - he has stated that democracy and Islam are NOT incompatible and the women can serve in Parliament. He has the respect of Somali cleric which the past secular leader did not.

As I have said before, Islam, gives democratic movements in the ME legitimacy. A democratic party has zilch standing (as it is usually associated with Western imperialism, force and imposition, more so after Iraq) but an Islamic democratic party, wooohoo, now we're getting somewhere.